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*** PAPER: The party politics of diplomatic engagements: Evidence from Italy
*** FILE NAME: "readme"
*** AUTHORS: Corda, Casiraghi
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This file presents all the replication material for the article "The party politics of diplomatic engagements: Evidence from Italy" by Tiziana Corda and Matteo C.M. Casiraghi, forthcoming in the Italian Political Science Review.


Our replication files are:

Dyad_replication.dta
Dyad_replication.do
Figure1.xlsx


* Dyad_replication.do: this files allows the recreation of table 1, figure 2, figure 3 in the main text as well as those in the appendix, using data contained in Dyad_replication.dta

* Figure1.xlsx: this file contains data to recreate figure 1


NB: The dataset of all the outgoing and incoming diplomatic visits in 2000-2023 is available here: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CY7Y8Z